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 DOMESDAY SURVEY Domesday. In the case of Appleby, by combining the 5 carucates held by Burton Abbey, in Derbyshire, with the 4 carucates held by the ' countess ' Godeva in Leicestershire we obtain a ' duodecimal ' total of 9 carucates for the vill as a whole, and at Linton the 2 carucates with which Henry de Ferrers is credited in the Derbyshire survey combine in a similar way with the I carucate which is assigned to him under Leicestershire. In addition to these cases, certain manors situated in other counties had appendages in Derbyshire. The economic arrangement of the manor sometimes overlapped the political division of the county. Thus the king's great manor of Rocester, in Staffordshire, extended itself across the Dove into Derbyshire. Of Wyaston and Edlaston we read : Hae ii ae villae sunt de firma R(egis) in Rouecestre praeter i bovatam qux jacet in Osmundestune. The interest of this entry is twofold. In the first place we see the farm of an important royal manor derived from estates situated in more than one county ; and, secondly, this passage supplies an argument against the universal autonomy of the Domesday ' manerium.' The symbol M is duly applied to the entry of Wyaston and Edlaston, and l yet we find that for one most important purpose these vills merely formed part of a larger whole. It may be noted in passing that while Earl ^Elfgar is given as the former possessor of Rocester, his son, Earl Edwin, is represented as having been the owner of Wyaston and Edlaston. Another tangle of rights, occurring this time in the extreme south of the county, is to be found at Chilcote, which is entered as a ' berewick' among the lands dependent on the king's manor of Repton. Yet the Survey goes on to mark 'H(aec) ad Cliftune pertinet in Stadford.' Clifton Campville, in Staffordshire, is the next village to Chilcote, but it is not easy to see in what sense Chilcote can have been dependent both on Repton and on Clifton Campville. A converse case in which land outside our county is assigned to a manor within it occurs in connexion with Sandiacre. Land at Thrumpton, Notts, situated on the fief of Hugh de Grentemaisnil, is stated to 'lie' in Sandiacre. 2 As no previous owner is given in the Thrumpton entry, and as Hugh de Grentemaisnil held no land in Derbyshire, it is difficult to account for the connexion with Sandiacre, which, in 1086, was divided into three 'manors,' all entered on the land of the king's thegns. We have seen that one of these manors was held by a certain ' Toli,' who also held in Ilkeston land to which the symbol ' M ' is applied. Yet at the end of this latter entry we read, ' Haec terra pertinet ad Sandiacre.' Here, then, we not only find the vague word ' terra ' applied to a recognized ' manerium,' but we have another case in which one manor was dependent on another manor. Some of the most interesting entries in Domesday are those which relate to the disputed possession of land. There is always the possibility that these notices will contain some statement of the local customs affecting the matter in dispute, and we may also expect to find the wit- 1 Mr. Round observes that this passage does not stand alone. 8 ' In Sandiacre iacet,' fol. I gib. I 321 41